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Beer of the Week (w/e 15th June 2025) with ROBCamra
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The Marketside Tavern, Bury
Bury
BL9 0QL
Served areas
Reviews of The Marketside Tavern (Average Rating: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
Ian Mapp left this review about The Marketside Tavern
Have to agree with Rob from Camra - micros work well when offering an eclectic/eccentric range of beers that you cannot get elsewhere. The cask selection (Titanic etc) was not too inspiring. Some ciders. Lots of German Keg and bottles.
Monday night possibly not the best time to visit - a lack of punters (one other, possibly a mate of the owner).
On 21st May 2025
- rating: 5
[User has posted 1607 recommendations about 1584 pubs]
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Thirsty Fish
The Thirsty Fish is a micropub located in a shopping area next to Bury Interchange. The single room was busy on my Saturday afternoon visit, with just one table remaining, which I duly took. The table was just adjacent to the bar and next to a significant list of ciders, none of which I'd had. Although, I was soon brought back down to earth, by being told that the only cider available was Mortimer's Orchard. Somebody else came in shortly after me and also tried to order one of the ciders. It seems a little short-sighted not to have any real cider on at all.
The 2 regular ales are both from Beartown. One is labelled as Thirsty Fish, which is in fact Golden Fish. The other is Crème Bearlee. 3 guests were Welbeck Abbey Henrietta, Milestone Shine On & Brewsmith Nelson Sauvin.
Customers were mainly middle-aged or elderly, with the Eastern European barman being the youngest present. Whilst this was my favourite pub of the day in the Bury area, it still fell short of my expectations.
On 18th October 2020
- rating: 6
[User has posted 3106 recommendations about 3104 pubs]
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ROB Camra left this review about The Thirsty Fish
This micropub has huge, floor to ceiling windows all down one side. It also had a load of ignorant, middle-aged punters who wouldn't move out of the way for me to get to the bar. Sadly when I got there eventually I found the most boring selection of universally local ales that I've ever seen in a micro. 4 from Beartown and 3 from Deeply Vale plus one from Brightside. I'm not a fan of any of them and as breweries they all sell average beer fairly cheap. The barmaid was friendly, but that's the only positive for me. Not impressed at all on this visit, although I will try it again next time I'm in Bury and hope for improvement.
On 29th April 2020
- rating: 4
[User has posted 3295 recommendations about 3205 pubs]
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : No last updated 26 September 2018 by ROB Camra
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 26 September 2018 by ROB Camra
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 29 April 2020 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : No last updated 29 April 2020 by ROB Camra
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 10% according to More Beer Autumn 2018. Not on WhatPub though. - last updated 26 September 2018 by ROB Camra
- Car Park : No last updated 26 September 2018 by ROB Camra
- Child Friendly : No - Not allowed - last updated 26 September 2018 by ROB Camra
- Darts : No last updated 29 April 2020 by ROB Camra
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 26 September 2018 by ROB Camra
- Function Room : No last updated 29 April 2020 by ROB Camra
- Hot Food : No last updated 29 April 2020 by ROB Camra
- Jukebox : No last updated 29 April 2020 by ROB Camra
- Karaoke : No last updated 29 April 2020 by ROB Camra
- Live Music : No last updated 26 September 2018 by ROB Camra
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 26 September 2018 by ROB Camra
- Micropub : Yes last updated 29 April 2020 by ROB Camra
- Pinball : No last updated 26 September 2018 by ROB Camra
- Pool Table : No last updated 26 September 2018 by ROB Camra
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 29 April 2020 by ROB Camra
- Real Cider : No last updated 18 October 2020 by Blue Scrumpy
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 29 April 2020 by ROB Camra
- WiFi : Yes last updated 29 April 2020 by ROB Camra
